I’m from Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, the not cool part of L.A.; well I shouldn’t say that, but  as opposed to Hollywood. In a sense, the San Fernando Valley and Southern California are very similar to San Jose where they’re both sorta big, flat, spread out, and then you have this sorta mecca, [...]

Mark was born in Ohio on an Air Force base, as his father was in the military. His family moved to Los Gatos when he was four. Mark grew up riding skateboards and playing music in a punk-band, and he has enjoyed a bit more of the Silicon Valley’s counter culture. He is married with [...]

“Papa,” Juliaa Anne whimpered as she rubbed my shoulder to wake me up from my slumber. “Wake up Pa. Sariah and I will be late for school,” she said in a somber tone. Life has been really hard on all of us ever since we moved here last October to the quiet suburb of Milpitas [...]

Nearly a lifetime San Jose resident, Ben Mayberry now lives and works in Marina, California as the marketing & event operations coordinator for the CSU Monterey Bay athletics department. He hopes to become an assistant coach for the baseball team next year. He returns to San Jose to visit his parents frequently, and still thinks [...]

Adam Galuszka is a buyer/manager for a bicycle shop in Palo Alto.
I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for twenty-five years; the first twenty in Mountain View and about five years in Los Altos.  I was born in Canada, but I came over with my parents when my father was transferred to a large engineering firm in [...]

[I lived in] Oakland and San Jose [State] was close, very inexpensive to go to: $53 a semester.   So I came down and moved in with two friends I’d known since high school.  We all took electronic engineering.

Richard Barry is a semi-retired start-up veteran of Silicon Valley who recently moved to Southern California with his wife, Christine. Although he grew up poor in Chicago, his ceramic engineering and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois landed him a job in Mountain View with Fairchild Semiconductor in 1966. After riding the Valley’s wild [...]